Important Single Publications 

1) Mithun Sikdar. 2025. A retrospective study to understand the impact of flooding on natural selection and physical growth dynamics. Scientific Reports 15, 30941 (2025). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-025-09451-8 

2) Mithun Sikdar. 2023. Complete mitochondrial DNA sequence tries to settle hitherto putative history of Kayastha population of India. American Journal of Human Biology, e23851. 

3) Mithun Sikdar. 2021. Whether Mahatma Gandhi was misinterpreted through the dilemma of irrelevant and relevant philosophies? Oriental Anthropologist (2):290-302. 

4) Mithun Sikdar.2016. Hemoglobin E in Northeast India: A review on its origin, distribution, migration and health implication. Anthropological Review 79 (3), 241-263

5) Mithun Sikdar. 2015. Socioeconomic classification of Indian population: A conceptual update for biomedical research. Biolife 3 (3), 769-770. 

6) Mithun Sikdar. 2015. Dual burden of malnutrition and hidden hunger among tribal children of North East India. Current Science 108 (2), 152.

7) Mithun Sikdar. 2012. Nutritional status among the Mising tribal children of Northeast India with respect to their arm fat area and arm muscle area. Human Biology Review 1, 331-4. 

8) Mithun Sikdar.2012. Socioeconomic covariates and their impact on the opportunity for natural selection in a riparian tribe of Northeast India. Anthropologischer Anzeiger 69, 273-87.

9) Mithun Sikdar. 2012. Prevalence of malnutrition among the Mising children of Northeast India: A comparison between four different sets of criteria. North American Journal of Medical Sciences 4 (7), 305-309.

10) Mithun Sikdar. 2009. Continuity and Change in Matrilineal Marriage System: A Case Study among the Garos of Poschim Bosti, Assam. Studies in Tribes and Tribals 7 (2).125-130.

11) Mithun Sikdar. 2008. Influence of socio-economic transition on genetic structure: a case study in Upper Assam, India. Annals of Human Biology 35 (1), 112-120.

Important Joint Publications 

2025. Global, regional, and national prevalence of adult overweight and obesity, 1990-2021, with forecasts to 2050: a forecasting study for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2021. Lancet 403, 1019-1052

2025. Global burden of vision impairment due to age-related macular degeneration, 1990–2021, with forecasts to 2050: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2021. The Lancet Global Health 13 (7), e1175-e1190 

2024. Global, regional, and national burden of stroke and its risk factors, 1990-2021: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2021. Lancet Neurol. 23, 153–206 https://doi.org/10.1016/S1474-4422(24)00026-8 

2024. Distinct positions of genetic and oral histories: Perspectives from India. Hum. Genet. Genom. Adv. 5, 100305

Book chapters (single authored)

1) Mithun Sikdar. 2019. Tribal Health: the saga of gene-culture interaction, in M.C. Behera (Edited) “Development and Tribes: Contemporary Issues and Challenges”, Serial Publications Pvt Ltd, New Delhi.  

2) Mithun Sikdar.2018. The new era of nutrigenomics in Tackling Dual Burden of Malnutrition, In Nitish Mondal , Kaushik Bose and Jaydip Sen (Edited)  “Malnutrition: A double burden,” B.R. Publication, New Delhi.  

3) Mithun Sikdar. 2015. Environmental quality, developmental plasticity, epigenetics and physical growth in a riverine population of Northeast India, in Mithun Sikdar (Edited) “Human Growth: the mirror of the Society”, pp 275-293; B R publication corporation, New Delhi, INDIA. (ISBN 9789350502006).

4) Mithun Sikdar. 2014. Sleep duration and central obesity among the adults: A case study in Udaipur, Rajasthan. In Kaushik Bose and Raja Chakraborty (Edited), “Health Consequences of Human Central Obesity”, , pp 207-214; NOVA Publishers, USA.(ISBN: 978-1-63321-152-0). 

5) Mithun Sikdar.2013. Nutrition transition in Developing countries. In M. Harmanussen, (Edited), “Auxology: studying human growth and development”, pp 124-125.Schweizerbart Science Publisher, GERMANY. (ISBN 978-3-510-65278-5).